At our July branch meeting we will be holding elections for three vacant committee posts. Following the resignation of Larry Herman, there are vacancies for branch secretary and for joint treasurer. Also, we are about to lose our membership secretary, Matt Aslett, who will be based in the Middle East from September, and we need a replacement (there is no branch meeting planned for August).

If you are a full branch member and interested in standing for any of these posts, please come to the meeting, or send in a nomination. It really doesn’t matter if you haven’t done anything like this before – you will receive help and support from other committee members. Committee meetings are held on the first Tuesday of each month (except August) at 6.00pm at Headland House.

If you have questions about any of the posts, or would like to talk about nominating yourself, please get in touch with me, or with any of the other LPB committee members (contact details on the Committee page of this website).

We will also be voting on any nominations we receive for the casual vacancies on various NUJ Councils.

In our July branch meeting, we will be discussing photobooks. In recent years, self-publishing technology has enabled photobooks to be produced by photographers independently of the big publishing houses, and new photography ebook formats have emerged for tablets and mobiles. This discussion will look at how self-publishing and the new generation of photobooks can be used as an additional storytelling platform for photojournalists.

SPEAKERS

Marc Vallée is a London-based documentary photographer whose work covers the London graffiti scene, anti-skateboarding architecture, youth culture and political dissent. He has published three limited edition photography books in the last year and is currently working on a fourth. He has a independent approach to publishing, rooted in the DIY punk zine culture, and has recently collaborated on exhibitions with The Photocopy Club: XEROX AND DESTROY and RIOT at the Doomed Gallery in east London.

Steven Lee is a Malaysian photographer based in the UK. He began his photographic career as a documentary and travel photographer in the 90’s. In 2000 he published his prize-winning book ‘Outside Looking In : Kuala Lumpur’. In 2002, he photographed ‘A Taste for Freedom’, a photobook commission for AntiSlavery International UK on specially prepared Indian recipes by Chattar Singh of Rajasthan. In 2007 he published ‘MALAYSIANS’, and ‘MUSEO’, is a print-on-demand publication. He is the founder of KL PHOTOAWARDS, an international Contemporary Portrait Photography competition centered in Malaysia.

SLIDE SHOW

There will also be a 5 minute slideshow of the work of Martin Brink, a photographer based in Sweden known for his explorations of the digital photobook medium, and founder of The Digital Photobook (http://thedigitalphotobook.blogspot.co.uk/), a curated showcase of digital photobooks.

PLEASE NOTE: THIS MEETING WILL START WITH BRANCH BUSINESS AT 6.00PM; THE DISCUSSION WILL START AT 7.00PM

LPB members are welcome at London Magazine Branch’s summer social this Thursday.

LMB branch secretary Alan Gibson writes; “You are invited to field a team in order to pit your wits against the finest the magazine sector can muster at the LMB’s SUMMER SOCIAL QUIZ NIGHT. If you haven’t got a team, don’t worry, we can find you one.”

Below is a list of the latest vacancies on the NUJ Ethics, Industrial and Executive Councils for which LPB members are eligible to stand. The deadline for nominations is Friday 6th September 2013. As there is no branch meeting in August, any LPB member who wishes to be nominated by the branch will need to have their nomination considered at the 30 July branch meeting, and should either attend the meeting in person, or notify the branch chair (pw@philipwolmuth.com ) in advance.

Ethics Council

National Newspapers

Broadcasting Industrial Council

Disabled seat

Freelance Industrial Council

Black Members

Disabled Members

London

Magazine and Book Industrial Council

Books in London

Magazines in London (4)

Disabled Members

Equality

Newspapers and Agencies Industrial Council

Black Members

Disabled Members

Equality

Please note that when a branch nominate a member for a geographical seat on a Council/Committee, the member must live in the appropriate area, for example if you want to be nominated for a London seat you must live in one of the following postcodes, E,EC,N,NW,SE,SW,W, and WC.

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Working LIves

The branch is producing a series of video interviews to illustrate the range of work undertaken by its members. The first two are with local newspaper photographer Anne-Marie Sanderson, and freelancer John Sturrock.